The collaboration was announced by the production house on its official Twitter page on 5 July. The untitled movie will be produced by A Subaskaran, the founder of Lyca Productions.
The Director is on cloud nine after the success of 2018. The critically-acclaimed survival drama is the first Malayalam film to cross the ₹200-crore mark at the domestic box office.
2018 features Tovino Thomas, Indrans, Kunchacko Boban, Aparna Balamurali, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Asif Ali, Lal, Narain, Tanvi Ram, Sshivada, and many more in major roles.
Lyca Productions bankrolled several big-budget Tamil films like 2.0 (2018), Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022), and Ponniyin Selvan 2 (2023). It also produced the Bollywood film Ram Sethu (2022).
Further, the banner is now producing the highly-anticipated movie Indian 2, a sequel to the 1996 Tamil movie Indian starring Kamal Haasan in dual roles.